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Office, he signed an executive order about surveillance. did that play a role in this? >> well, it may well have had a role in this. the rule change affected this executive order. it changed the way the fbi could sift through raw data making it easier to share information among agency and identify in phone calls and text messages of american citizens. these rules were eased not for criminal cases but for what's called counter intelligence cases. those are espionage cases. several conditions have to be met though for that to happen. one is that you have evidence that an american citizen is acti...

Since the cuban revolution. >> a big diplomatic moment there. and kris, one of the big points of controversy in the president's announcement is the revelation is wasn't just gross, he stressed unrelatedly another, what he really explicitly said was a swap of those cuban prisoners for an intelligence asset, tell us about that. >> we didn't know about this asset, he is a cuban, we have learned that he was critical in breaking some espionage cases, and seeing that some espionage prosecutions were successful in the united states. he was in prison in cuba for 20 years, obviously many of the details...